Equal Rights Amendment
This is a photo taken during an interview on the NBC Today Show in 1975 about the campaign to pass the Equal Rights Amendment in the US. I am on the left, a proponent for women’s equality. My opponent is on the right. During the interview, she asked…
Apologies to Marcel
Several years ago, inspired by Marcel Proust, I chose some books for my bedside table to read before going to sleep. I thought they would inspire me. But they went untouched for months, and when I noticed them, I felt guilty and embarrassed that I wasn’t reading them.…
Heart’s journey back to the future
The appointment with the cardiologist was for an echocardiogram he needed before taking me off a beta blocker that was causing asthma attacks. He is a fey, lanky man with wild white hair and looks scarily like Christopher Lloyd in “Back to the Future.” He sat beside me,…
A Christmas Story
This is the true story of a child’s first Christmas, a four-month-old baby girl who was the first grandchild in the family. Her grandfather wanted to make her Christmas a magical one, so he bought the most beautiful tree he could find, hung it with strings of colored…
La Toussaint
Opening the shutters one autumn morning, I saw large flocks of great white egrets landing in the field across the road, next to the stonewalled cemetery. They come every year to feed in our rich pastures before flying south to the Mediterranean and Africa. This year they arrived…